HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The Kashmir tragedy began when under the Treaty of Amritsar in 1846; the British sold the state of Jammu and Kashmir to Gulab Singh‚ a Hindu Dogra chieftain for the sum of 7.5 million rupees. Lord Lawrence who negotiated this treaty‚ termed this transaction as “iniquitous arrangement” The sale of such a vast area with a predominantly Muslim majority was justified by the Viceroy Lord Hardinge ‚ in his correspondence with Queen Victoria ‚to recover the losses in wars against
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VANESSA MELINA VÁZQUEZ VEGA WRITING WELL Never alone A blaring sound was shaking into that speedy white escort racing on the road. His hands were thumbing the steering wheel while “hold the line” was on the radio .The volume was louder every second‚ but Victor was careless about exploding his car speakers. Adrenaline went through his body as a drug running
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Macbeth‚ Julius Caesar‚ and Hamlet are just a few of William Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays. Some would argue that Romeo and Juliet is by far his best and most famous. In this tragedy two families‚ Capulet and Montague‚ are feuding. Despite this problem‚ the two young lovers still meet and continue on to get married. Their love for each other is so strong it will eventually lead to their deaths. The amazing work of Shakespeare and how he created it made such
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The Deft Touch of Catch 22: Heller’s Harmonious Unison of Comedy and Tragedy Since the dawn of literature and drama‚ comedy and tragedy have always been partitioned into separate genres. Certainly most tragedies had comedic moments‚ and even the zaniest comedies were at times serious. However‚ even the development of said tragicomedies left the division more or less intact. Integrating a total comedy and a total tragedy into a holistic union that not only preserved both features‚ but also
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The Class That Never Speaks Case Study of M5/5 Chatcharunchindra School Bangkok Mr. David Wilson Thongsook College B.A. TESOL Code: 120205 Professor Jay Wisecarver March 2014 Abstract During my studies for classroom management I was tasked with writing this paper. Whilst I came to my subject matter fairly easily I am still unable to find a conclusive answer as to why the class in question never spoke. This being the case I would consider this as an ongoing case study rather than a
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Letting go. It is difficult for us in so many ways and on so many levels. Yet life calls upon us to do it‚ over and over again. Letting go is part of our growth process. We cannot move on to the new while continuing to cling to the old. There come times‚ in the context of love and romance‚ when we must learn to let go. For some of us‚ as described in the song‚ we must let go of a past romantic relationship. Maybe the relationship was not meant to be: perhaps it was hurtful to us‚ or perhaps
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Omar Said Tragedy of Disappointment At the height of his presidency‚ Woodrow Wilson had many successes that made a huge impact on the country as well as the world. However‚ he also had very bad points as well. One of those bad points was the Treaty of Versailles. In many ways‚ the Treaty of Versailles mirrored his presidency. His ruthlessness for self- determination in his policies coming into Paris did not allow him to get what he really wanted in the treaty. In the end‚ Wilson was
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The poem "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes purposefully is reminiscent of Walt Whitman’s "I Hear America Singing" in which Whitman is optimistic about this land of democratic opportunity. Hughes‚ however‚ writing from a black man’s perspective‚ is much less optimistic about what American has been or will be. While Whitman’s’ poem was very unstructured in blank verse‚ Hughes’s poem is more tightly controlled with rhyme‚ tone‚ rhetorical questions‚ and more unified with repeated anaphora
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The Tragedy Archetype: The Rebirth Within Prim Lerthirunvibul Y10D (Blue) The seven archetypes is a theory in which there are seven ways of story-telling namely Quest‚ Voyage and Return‚ Rebirth‚ Comedy‚ Overcoming the Monster‚ Rags to Riches and Tragedy. The Tragedy archetype is one of the seven archetypes used in story-telling mentioned by Christopher Booker in The Seven Basic Plots. This archetype is known to expect a specific reaction from the readers often using grief‚ destruction and death
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In the beginning of the passage‚ the speaker says‚ "To go into solitude‚ a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write‚ though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone‚ let him look at the stars." By starting out the passage with this statement‚ I believe the man is content with his solitude. He tells the reader that he does not feel alone while he reads and writes even though he is all alone‚ and then he states that if a person feels
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